NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop 6 GB vs NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

4534 points

5962 points

31% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

112 FPS

136 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

57 FPS

81 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

78 FPS

92 FPS

14 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

44 FPS

61 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2352.59 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

1543.63 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

98709 points

99084 points

0.38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

92420 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

91343 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

71210 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

67503 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

84300 points

91343 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

82804 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

79119 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

900 MHz

49% significantly higher core clock speed

600 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1703 MHz

26% slightly higher boost clock speed

1350 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

5.97 GiB

16 GiB

167% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

256 Bit

33% slightly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

336 GB/s

384 GB/s

14% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

80 W

Identical

80 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

68.4 Gigapixels/s

86.4 Gigapixels/s

26% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

171 Gigatexels/s

259.20 Gigatexels/s

51% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

10.94 TFLOPS

31% slightly better floating point performance

8.29 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3840

25% slightly more shading units

3072

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

192

60% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

33% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 586

81st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop vs Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q specs and performance

For gaming, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q graphics card is better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q has significantly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 5.97 GiB. If you're planning at playing games at high resolutions with high-quality textures, you will need a lot of memory.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the Quadro RTX 5000 Max-Q is faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop.